Angela Hutchinson Hammer; Arizona's pioneer newspaperwoman.9780816523573 Angela Hutchinson Hutchinson, city (1990 pop. 39,308), seat of Reno co., S central Kans., on the Arkansas River; inc. 1872. It is a commercial and industrial center in a grain (especially wheat), livestock, and oil region. Hammer; Arizona's pioneer newspaperwoman. Joy, Betty Bet´ty n. 1. A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open. The powerful betty, or the artful picklock. - Arbuthnot. 2. E. Hammer. U. of Arizona Arizona (âr'əzō`nə), state in the southwestern United States. It is bordered by Utah (N), New Mexico (E), Mexico (S), and, across the Colorado R., Nevada and California (W). Press 2005 206 pages $17.95 Paperback PN4874 Angela Hutchinson Hammer simply needed a way to keep her three children fed after her marriage broke up; when she bought a handpress, some ink, and a few fonts of type and began printing the Wickenburg Miner in 1905, she embarked on a 28-year publishing career that was never lucrative but always independent, at the lively center of Arizona's early days of statehood state·hood n. The status of being a state, especially of the United States, rather than being a territory or dependency. . Joy, her granddaughter, thought someone else would take up the newspaper pioneer's story. When relatives pressed the job on her, the high school teacher decided to write it "for the lay reader who enjoys truthful history." In places Joy uses fictional devices to convey information, but most of the biography is based on Hammer's never-published memoirs mem·oir n. 1. An account of the personal experiences of an author. 2. An autobiography. Often used in the plural. 3. A biography or biographical sketch. 4. as well as newspaper accounts, family memories, and Joy's own knowledge. The work is peppered with b&w photos. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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